[Closed] Great products that modern technology has made redundant

Horses.

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Minidisc

Gramaphone.
Strange you should mention the A-Z as I bought a couple before Christmas...

Carbon paper (for those of certain age!)

encyclopaedias

Newspapers (coming)

Carbon paper (for those of certain age!)

I think it was the spirit copier or something like that, no?

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Razzle

Humans?

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Suntour xc pro

gestetner

Still using XC pro every day here thanks 🙂

A-Z is still going strong in our reality, at least. indispensable!

Maps? nah give me a map over sat nav anyday.

The fax machine
Singlespeeds and fixies 🙂

I think it was the spirit copier or something like that, no?

gestetner

No I think Gestetner was a different technology. I think "Banda" was the "spirit copier".

Gestetner used "stencils" to print with ink. The stencils were usually typed. Banda used a master copy produced a bit like writing on carbon paper the wrong way up which then washed this ink onto the copies, banda was more suited to hand written masters, but could produce fewer copies before the "master" was depleted. It typically produced sheets with a blue/purple coloured ink on them, Gestetner used black ink. As I recall the paper used in the Banda was smooth and rough in Gestetner but not sure if that was just at my school.

Maps? nah give me a map over sat nav anyday.

I think they're two different things.

Stoner - Member
Minidisc

I was going to say that.

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8 track

Two stroke engines.

Linotype machines

Typewriters

Shorthand Notepads

Mini Disc, Ive got a sony recorder discs and a small mini disc player.... ebay here I come

Horses

😕 Not a product ...

Maps aren't redundant, just used less commonly.

Paper maps.

RISC OS 4

The slide rule.

Diaries

With all this Playstation and Wii nonsense nowadays I just wonder how many kids have lost out in their lives due to never having experienced this?

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Although I take that back as it seems to have relaunched recently!

magazines

Bicycles

I was also going to say Minidisc - first thing that popped into my mind.

My 4 year old nephew got one of those Evil Kinevil things above for Christmas...

Two stroke engines.

Googles diesel chainsaws 😕

Leaf tea.

Matches.

Floppy discs - just thrown out an unused box full of them.

Two stroke engines

Not sure the leaf blower would work too well with a 4-stroke.

Edit: beaten to it.

Derwent Graphics F pencils, drawing boards.

Still use matches here for lighting my fire, those super long ones...

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Derwent Graphics F pencils, drawing boards.

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Maps have not been fully replaced by GPS and I sincerely hope they never/doubt they will ever be.

The fact that a map will never run out of batteries, or be subject to the whims of the US govt, is something that I am very glad of.

Vinyl... That's something that I think technology has replaced with something less good. Ok, MP3s and their players are smaller, lighter and can carry more music, but there's something very personal about getting an EP or an LP out of its sleeve and giving it a go over with the velvet brush.

Listening to an LP on a turntable was almost like a story. You couldn't really skip ahead to your favourite track and play that on repeat, you had to listen to the whole thing. One of my biggest regrets is selling my turntables. I still have the vinyl though.

*Sheds a tear*

So many people were not skilled with Letraset. Like using biros.

I think I miss Letratone even more.

don simon - Member

Which means you'll remeber the name of the machine they used to use for school handouts.. I think it was the spirit copier or something like that, no?

Oh my, that's just triggered a 'smell' memory & given me a huge school flashback!

Floppy discs - just thrown out an unused box full of them.

Please don't! We've a lab full of machines whose only means of communicating is by floppy disc or dot-matrix printer...

That's uncanny MF. Those are the two things i was thinking of.

I miss my Rotrings 🙁

Vinyl... That's something that I think technology has replaced with something less good. Ok, MP3s and their players are smaller, lighter and can carry more music, but there's something very personal about getting an EP or an LP out of its sleeve and giving it a go over with the velvet brush.

Listening to an LP on a turntable was almost like a story. You couldn't really skip ahead to your favourite track and play that on repeat, you had to listen to the whole thing. One of my biggest regrets is selling my turntables. I still have the vinyl though.

Not replaced here, or generally it seems. Those in the know still use it, buy it, and fund more of it...

John Bull printing sets.

Hite-Rite

Friction shifting and thumbshifters.

I miss my Rotrings

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Blimey I used my Rotrings this weekend for first time in ages.

CDs

Tin openers will become redundant but everyone will still have one at the back of a draw for when the pull tab breaks.

I think I've still got a full set at my mum and dads. I Might have to dig those out.

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"Tin openers will become redundant but everyone will still have one at the back of a draw for when the pull tab breaks."

And for corned beef - open both ends - easy peasy.

@binners - including one with blue lead, doesn't print on photocopies?

Sorry... there may be a few subjective instances where vinyl wins out but records were a pain in the arse. Prone to scratching, you had to handle them carefully, they wore out, players were fickle delicate things, and you didn't have the option of shuffle all/repeat. You still CAN listen to a whole album on an mp3 player if you like, of course.

Helps if you take the rose coloured glasses off 🙂

Anyway - here's my suggestion:

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Helps if you take the rose coloured glasses off

Funnily enough, I use my ears to listen to music. That might be where you're going wrong....

Letraset are still going strong, drove by the factory the other day, fully expected to see it gone but it's still there, I think the stuff still gets used for signs, office doors stuff like that.

I was thinking Outboards and bikes when thinking two stroke motor. Diesel Chainsaw now there's a thought.

Palm Visor I do miss Gaydar..

Film

Floppy Discs

Newton

We'll all be redundant soon....... The end is nigh

Christ not heard of a lot of those!!
How about a list of stuff I know about but have never used

Vinyl, yellow pages, minidisc ( really, whats that? ) i just had to look up what an a to z is LOL

Letra Set, stipple tone, letra Line and proper drawing pens. Fanylion and Binners, you have mentioned the tools of my trade when I first started as a draftsman. It's like going back in time!

Bloody 0.13 pens never lasted long before they dried up and blocked though. Did like Mecanorma pens as well as the Steadtler Mars as they were easier to strip and clean.

Tin openers will become redundant but everyone will still have one at the back of a draw for when the pull tab breaks

Soooo, they're not actually redundant then ... (?)

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Also, still around but probably on their way out (just ask any Italian cruise captain)
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Don't worry emsz, I never knew what an A to Z was until I went to uni. Funnily enough the day before I left my Dad was at the supermarket and saw a Cardiff A to Z on top of a pile of papers in a recycling bin. Result.

I've still got an A-Z that i used for dispatch riding. tatty and falling to bits and i'll probably never use it again but still tucked away someplace safe (so it's always a nice nostalgia surprise when i find it again)

Macgyver - my dad was a draftsman. So at the age of 4 omwards, I got used to drawing with whatever came to hand. Which in most cases was a Pentel pencil or a Rotring pen.

Its certainly not done me any harm 😀

t'was a lovely theraputic thing to do. Producing drawings with compound curves where the only hint of the transition from one curve to another was the way light reflected off an ink line on film and it couldn't be seen at all when printed.

So says the man who's typing this on one screen whilst the adjacent screen has CAD up and running. I kinda miss the old way. 😥

Course, there's the default pen widths on plotters that all harks back to the colours used to demark drawing pen widths.
Brown = 0.5mm
Yellow = .035mm
White = 0.25mm etc etc etc.

UK manufacturing......(only joking, STW is in a calm after the storm period)? 😉

I don't own a sat-nav, but my A-to-Z never leaves my car, I like the fact that I can add things to it quite easily, There are c1500 sites that I may have to visit as part of my job, so being able to record where they are in a couple of seconds with a pen is quite handy.

I do have a sat-nav app on my iphone though, but think I've only used it twice in the past 2 years!

Mini disc, I was a big fan of them, still have my player and a few discs somewhere, but they just couldn't compete once mp3 players came out.

I'm going to add CD-r and DVD-r to the list, usb thumb drives and network media players have really done away with the need for recordable media for me.

ooooh, still got my dividers and plotter for sailing navigation too.
Think the father in law still has is sextant from his flying days!

are these still in use?

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gone but not forgotten...

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+1 Suntour XC pro

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Vinny - is that Log Tables on papyrus?

If not - log tables (at least in book form)
Brown paper covers for school books
Tracing paper
Izal medicated toilet paper
Canes

(aaahhh, the sweet days of school!!)

And don't forget the beauty that is...

The rotring pen is still at the very heart of one of the highest tech sports on the planet

 

Ohh my god I think I have gone back in time!!!!

What about these babies?

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And don't forget...
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Posted twice oops

Letratone pens anyone - pens that would be consistant in colour whether you bought one last week or last year? Now I'll show my age. Dyeline prints and vacuum flatbed printers, redline prints and print rooms that gently stunk of ammonia from the fixing process. Colour wash for colouring up large plans? Happy days!

Right then graphic designers - the next stop on Memory Lane...

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i bought a new Rotring nib (0.3) yesterday 🙂

it's always fun when asked by a new client what format they should expect the work on and i reply 'paper', there's usually a long quizzical silence

i like to mix my old and new, tracing an image off a computer screen is one of my favourite wrongs

oooh, that reminds me, Grant Enlargers

Quink ink

argggh I was liking this but work somehow blocks some images so no idea what Fanylion posted.

However, like all good poker players I'll bluff and raise you a drafting machine. I still have some really nice scaled straight edges from one of those.